Investigation. Paul manafort and his assistant, bob gates, indicted on 12 count including conspiracy, moneylaundering and false statements. President trump responding to the indictment on twitter saying, sorry but this is years ago and nbefore Paul Manafort ws part of the Trump Campaign. But why arent crooked hillary and the demes the focus . The attempts to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton, first case involving alleged collusion according to Court Filings. Papadopoulos is cooperating with the prosecute popper lets bring in our team, pete williams, Garrett Haake, Kristin Welker at the white house. Richa Richard Engel and matt miller. Pete williams, take it away, first, the significance and the facts embedded in this these allegations against pal manafort and rick gates as well as rick papadopoulos. Yeah. Manafort and gates are getting most of the attention because they are familiar names. But the papadopoulos case is potentially more important for bob muellers investigation as to whether
Stone originally attracted attention after tweeting in august of 2016 that it would soon be Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podestas time in the barrel. Stone has repeatedly denied having advanced knowledge of the hack of podestas emails. Just a coincidence that two days later, voila, the Podesta Emails dropped . The answer to your question is yes, that would be based on conjecture, supposition. But there is no evidence to suggest that that is what i was speaking to, i never said anything of the kind. There is no evidence whatsoever that i had advanced knowledge of the content or source of this material. I received nothing from wikileaks or from the russians. I passed nothing on to donald trump or the Trump Campaign. Weve been through this ad nauseam. It is a wild goose chase. The indictment alleges a link between stone and the Trump Campaign, saying, quote, during the summer of 2016, stone spoke to Senior Trump Campaign officials about organization 1, thats wikileaks, and infor